Sentences with phrase «molecular machine designed»

«Gyroscope» molecules form crystal that's both solid and full of motion: New type of molecular machine designed by UCLA researchers could have wide - ranging applications in technology and science January 16th, 2018

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«Gyroscope» molecules form crystal that's both solid and full of motion: New type of molecular machine designed by researchers could have wide - ranging applications in technology and science.»

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Jean - Pierre Sauvage, James Fraser Stoddart and Bernard L. Feringa share the 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the design and synthesis of molecular machines.

«Our findings are an important step forward in this pursuit, demonstrating that through the use of computer simulations to orchestrate precise properties of atomic structure and molecular dynamics, proteins can now be designed to carry out complex functions that rival those of natural molecular machines,» Grigoryan says.

The 2016 Nobel Prize in chemistry honors three pioneers in this field who have designed and built some of the first molecular machines (see Fig. 1A).

These students and faculty work on a broad spectrum of research problems that share at least one of the four goals of Bio-X: to image and simulate life from molecules to mind, to restore the health of cells and tissues, to decode the genetics of health and disease, and to design therapeutic devices and molecular machines.

Indeed, Balzani is recognized as a world leader in the design, construction, and characterization of molecular - level devices and machines using the bottom - up approach toward Nanotechnology.

The innovative aspect of this activity was the notion that the concept of macroscopic devices could be extended to the molecular level, and that it was possible to design supramolecular systems that, upon stimulation with external energy stimuli such as UV / Visible light, are capable of performing a variety of specific functions: (i) systems for information processing (e.g., wires, switches, antennas, plug / socket systems, extension cables, memories, logic gates, encoder / decoder, rudimentary neuron - like systems), (ii) devices that when powered by chemical energy or electrochemical energy or by light exhibit machine - like behavior (e.g., piston / cylinder systems, shuttles, lifts, rotary rings, dendritic photo - switchable boxes), and (iii) components for artificial photosynthetic systems.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2016 to Jean - Pierre Sauvage, University of Strasbourg, France Sir J. Fraser Stoddart, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA, and Bernard L. Feringa, University of Groningen, the Netherlands «for the design and synthesis of molecular machines»...

In accepting the award, Sir Fraser commented that the Feynman awards that year represented a unique, scientific «father and son» celebration since the winner in the Theory category was David A. Leigh, then of the University of Edinburgh, for «the design and synthesis of artificial molecular motors and machines from first principles»... «focusing on the construction of molecular machine systems that function in the realm of Brownian motion».

Development of the ability to design protein molecules will, by analogy between features of natural macromolecules and components of existing machines, make possible the construction of molecular machines.

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2016 is awarded to Jean - Pierre Sauvage, Sir J. Fraser Stoddart and Bernard L. Feringa for their design and production of molecular machines.

We can hope that increasing control over the balance between stabilizing and functional features will lead to designing new protein functions, and eventually more complex and capable molecular machine systems.

Prof. Jean Pierre Sauvage, Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences, Blaise Pascal Medal in Chemistry in 2012, and Professor at the University of Strasbourg (France) was awarded, jointly with Prof. Sir J. Fraser Stoddart and Bernard L. Feringa, the 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemisty for «for the design and synthesis of molecular machines».